SimonRoyHughes, 10 months ago to folklorethursday

Did you know that some storytellers push the traditions they want to spread by using established traditions to endear themselves to the collector?

And that's the story of how #PeerGynt was written.

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SimonRoyHughes, 10 months ago to folklorethursday

Ringelihorn, and other tales from Northern Norway

20 wonderfully charming folk and fairy tales by Regine Normann

More information here: https://wiki.norwegianfolktales.net/index.php/Ringelihorn_and_other_tales_from_Northern_Norway

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SimonRoyHughes, 10 months ago to folklorethursday

Asbjørnsen & Moe investigate new methods of collecting folktales:

"The undersigned would consider themselves particularly indebted to those who would recount for us either folktales that have not been told in this part or variants, supplements, etc. to those already told. Please send such contributions to the address: Johan Dahls Boghandling.

Christiania, 1842. The Publishers."

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SimonRoyHughes, 10 months ago to folklorethursday

When the cat knocks, a man of the mountain with three heads comes out. “I know some tricks, I do,” says the cat.

“What tricks?” asks the mountain troll.

“I can make myself big as a house.”

“That’s certainly some trick.”

“I can make myself as small as a mouse.”

“That’s certainly some trick! So can I,” says the troll.

“I want to see that,” says the cat.

Then the mountain troll makes himself as small as a mouse, and the cat bites all three of its heads off.

– An unpublished variant of Herre Per.

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SimonRoyHughes, 10 months ago to folklorethursday

"Like most children's folktales, less widespread." – Asbjørnsen & Moe.

I wonder what the Opies would say.

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SimonRoyHughes, 10 months ago to folklorethursday

“The legend is the mother of history; the folktale is a relative of both. All three are the dearest friends of youth.”
– Guldberg & Dzwonkowski (the earliest publishers of #Asbjørnsen & #Moe)

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SimonRoyHughes, 10 months ago to folklorethursday

The Story of the Three Billy Goat what now?

https://archive.org/details/wondertalesretol00pyle/page/68

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SimonRoyHughes, 10 months ago to folklorethursday

After pissing around with this article for much of the summer, I present to you, dearest Tooters, my findings:

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